Génesis 17
1 Cuando Abram tenía 99 años, el Señor se le apreció y le dijo: “Yo soy el Dios Altísimo. Vive en mi presencia y haz el bien.
When Abram was 99 years old, Yahweh appeared to him again and said to him, “I am God Almighty. I want you to live in a way that I will regard you as someone that cannot be criticized.
2 Yo haré mi pacto contigo, y te daré muchos descendientes”.
If you do that, I will make an agreement with you in which I will promise to enable you to have very many descendants.” [MTY]
3 Abram se inclinó y puso su rostro en el suelo. Y Dios le dijo:
Abram prostrated himself with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
4 “¡Escucha, Abram! Este es el acuerdo que hago contigo. Serás el padre de muchas naciones,
“Listen to this agreement that I am making with you: People of many nations will be your descendants.
5 así que tu nombre ya no será más Abram. En su lugar, tunombre será Abraham porque yo te haré padre de muchas naciones.
And no longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham, [which means ‘father of many nations,’] because the people of many nations will descend from you.
6 Yo me aseguraré de que tengas un gran número de descendientes. Ellos se transformarán en muchas naciones y algunos de sus reyes también vendrán de tu linaje.
I will enable you to have very many descendants, and I will cause them to become great nations/people-groups, and some of your descendants will become kings.
7 Yo te prometo guardar mi pacto contigo, y con tus descendientes, por todas las generaciones futuras. Este es un pacto eterno. Yo siempre seré tu Dios y el Dios de tus descendientes.
I will make this agreement between me and you and your descendants. It will be an everlasting agreement to be in effect for many generations. This agreement is that I will be your God, and the God of your descendants.
8 Yo te daré a ti y a tus descendientes todo el país de Canaán—donde has vivido como extranjero—como tu tierra para siempre, y yo seré su Dios”.
I will give to you and to your descendants the land through which you are now traveling, all of the Canaan region. It will be an everlasting possession for your descendants, and I will be the God that they [will worship].”
9 Entonces Dios le dijo a Abraham: “Tu parte consiste en guardar mi pacto, tanto tú como tus descendientes, por todas las generaciones futuras.
Then God said to Abraham, “Now you must obey [your part of] the agreement that I am making with you, and your descendants must also obey it, for all generations.
10 Este es mi acuerdo contigo y con tus descendientes, el acuerdo que debes guardar: Todo hombre entre ustedes será circuncidado.
This is the agreement that I am making, between myself and you and all your descendants: Every male among you must be circumcised.
11 Vas a circuncidar la carne de tu prepucio, y esta será la señal del pacto entre mi y ustedes.
(Cutting the foreskins of/Circumcising) them will be the sign [that you have accepted] the agreement I am making with you.
12 Desde ahora y por todas las generaciones, todo hombre entre ustedes será circuncidado a los 8 días después de nacer. Esto no solo se aplicará a tus hijos sino a todo varón que nazca en tu casa, o que sea comprado de los extranjeros.
Every male child among you must be circumcised when he is eight days old, in all future generations. That includes baby boys in your household or those born from slaves that have been bought, and baby boys of foreigners who live among you but do not belong to your household.
13 Debes circuncidar a los varones nacidos en tu casa o comprado de los extranjeros, como señal externa de mi pacto.
It does not matter whether their parents are members of your household or slaves that have been bought; they must all be circumcised. Your bodies will have this mark to show [you have accepted] this everlasting agreement I am making.
14 Cualquier varón incircunciso que se niegue a circuncidarse será expulsado del pueblo, porque habrá quebrantado mi pacto”.
You must expel from your community any male who has not been circumcised, because [by not being circumcised] that person has disobeyed my agreement.”
15 Entonces Dios le dijo a Abraham: “Ahora, en lo que concierne a Sarai, tu esposa, nunca más la llamarán Sarai. Ahora su nombre será Sara.
God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai, your wife, you must not call her Sarai any longer. [Since I changed your name, I will change her name also]. Her name will now be Sarah.
16 Yo la bendeciré y prometo darte un hijo por medio de ella. Yo la bendeciré para que se convierta en la madre de todas las naciones, y habrá reyes entre sus descendientes”.
I will bless her, and she will surely give birth to a son for you. And I will bless her so much that she will be the ancestor of people of many nations. Kings of some people-groups will be descended from her.”
17 Abraham se inclinó y puso su rostro en el suelo. Pero por dentro se reía, y se preguntaba: “¿Cómo podré tener un hijo a la edad de cien años? ¿Cómo podría Sara tener un hijo a sus noventa años?”
Abraham prostrated himself with his face on the ground [to show respect to God]. But then he laughed as he said to himself, “Can a man who is a 100 years old become a father of a son? And since Sarah is 90 years old, how can she bear a child?”
18 Abraham le dijo a Dios: “¡Que Ismael viva siempre con tu bendición!”
Then Abraham said to God, “Perhaps you will let Ishmael receive your blessing [and inherit all I possess].”
19 “¡No, será tu esposa Sara quien te dará un hijo!” respondió Dios. “Lo llamarás Isaac. Yo guardaré mi pacto con él y con sus descendientes como un pacto eterno.
Then God replied, “[No!] Your wife Sarah will bear a son for you. You must name him Isaac. I will establish my agreement with him, one which will be an everlasting agreement for him and his descendants.
20 Ahora bien, en lo que a Ismael se refiere, escuché lo que dijiste y también lo bendeciré. Me aseguraré de que tenga muchos descendientes. Será el padre de doce príncipes, y yo lo convertiré en una gran nación.
As for Ishmael, I have heard what you asked me to do for him. I will bless him so that he also will have many descendants. Among his descendants will be rulers of twelve nations. And I will cause his [descendants] [MTY] to also become a great nation.
21 Pero guardaré mi pacto con Isaac, el hijo que tendrá Sara para estos días el próximo año”.
But Isaac, the son whom Sarah will give birth to at this time next year, is the one with whom I will establish my agreement.”
22 Cuando Dios terminó de hablar con Abraham, se retiró de su presencia.
When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.
23 Ese día Abraham circuncidó a su hijo Ismael y a todos los que habían nacido en su casa, así como a los que había comprado, y todos los varones que habitaban en su casa, tal como Dios se lo dijo.
On that same day, Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the males that were in his household, including the sons of all the slaves he had bought, and circumcised them. He cut off their foreskins, just as God told him to do.
24 Abraham tenían 99 años cuando fue circuncidado,
Abraham was 99 years old when (he was circumcised/someone circumcised him),
25 y su hijo Ismael tenía 13 años.
and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.
26 Tanto Abraham como su hijo Ismael fueron circuncidados en el miso día.
On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.
27 Todos los hombres en la casa de Abraham, incluyendo los nacidos o comprados como esclavos extranjeros, fueron circuncidados con él.
And all the males in his household, the ones who had been born there and those who had been bought from foreigners, were also circumcised.
